Falk, along with colleagues Frederick E. Lepore of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Adrianne Noe, director of the National Museum of Health and Medicine, describe for the first time the entire cerebral cortex of Einstein\u2019s brain from an examination of 14 recently discovered photographs. The researchers compared Einstein\u2019s brain to 85 \u201cnormal\u201d human brains and, in light of current functional imaging studies, interpreted its unusual features.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cAlthough the overall size and asymmetrical shape of Einstein\u2019s brain were normal, the prefrontal, somatosensory, primary motor, parietal, temporal and occipital cortices were extraordinary<\/strong>,\u201d said Falk, the Hale G. Smith Professor of Anthropology at Florida State. \u201cThese may have provided the neurological underpinnings for some of his visuospatial and mathematical abilities, for instance.\u201d<\/p>\n The study, \u201cThe Cerebral Cortex of Albert Einstein: A Description and Preliminary Analysis of Unpublished Photographs,\u201d will be published Nov. 16 in the journal Brain<\/em>.<\/p>\n Upon Einstein\u2019s death in 1955, his brain was removed and photographed from multiple angles with the permission of his family<\/strong>. Furthermore, it was sectioned into 240 blocks from which histological slides were prepared. Unfortunately, a great majority of the photographs, blocks and slides were lost from public sight for more than 55 years. The 14 photographs used by the researchers now are held by the National Museum of Health and Medicine.<\/p>\n The paper also publishes the \u201croadmap\u201d to Einstein\u2019s brain prepared in 1955 by Dr. Thomas Harvey to illustrate the locations within Einstein\u2019s previously whole brain of 240 dissected blocks of tissue, which provides a key to locating the origins within the brain of the newly emerged histological slides.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the Florida State University press release via Newswise: Portions of Albert Einstein\u2019s brain have been found to be unlike those of most people and could be related to his… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[42,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8403"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8463,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8403\/revisions\/8463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Lab](\"http:\/\/www.therapytoronto.ca\/images\/blogpics\/lab_research.jpg\")
Portions of Albert Einstein\u2019s brain have been found to be unlike those of most people and could be related to his extraordinary cognitive abilities<\/strong>, according to a new study led by Florida State University evolutionary anthropologist Dean Falk.<\/p>\n